In addition to serving as general contractor on the project, Jake Gott of Timber Island Builders enjoyed doing some “freestyle carpentry,” most notably in the kids’ bunkroom. There was no formal design process for this built-in: Gott and his friend Nick Libby drew something on the wall, grabbed some wood from the scrap pile, and got to work. “When you have a set of prints, it’s two dimensional. Once it’s up and you’re actually there, you can see things more clearly,” he says.